DAC (Disciplined Agile Coach) Course
Description
FORMAT: Online only
IMPORTANT: YOU MUST HAVE ACCESS TO A CAMERA AND A MICROPHONE, IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE FULLY DURING THE TRAINING.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: October 1, 2021 at noon. After this date, you must reach us by phone to register.
COURSE DATES: Oct. 4, 7, 18 & 21 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
LIVE BROADCAST HOURS: 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. EST
FORMAT: Online in meeting mode
LOCATION: Web connection with instructions will be provided by email approximately 2 days before the start of your course. This course is broadcast on the Zoom platform.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Pre-workshop (Phase 1)
- The Disciplined Agile Coach
- Working toward the end goals of DA™ coaching
- Supporting change at the individual, team, and groups of teams
- Coaching teams within the context of their organization
- Coaching teams through their transformation journey
Workshop (Phase 2):
- The DA mindset
- Working with your existing governance/PMO team
- Identifying challenges and competencies
- Determining improvement opportunities
- Working with the improvement backlog
- Creating a coaching playbook
- Implementing guided continuous improvement (GCI)
- Visualizing and removing impediments
- Determining the root cause of issues
- Supporting diversity in the workplace
- Guiding teams through the change process
- Overcoming barriers to decision making
- Working with external teams – GCI across disparate teams
- Helping your organization develop needed capacity
REGISTRATION:
The course is delivered in live webcast mode. Sessions are recorded as you go and can be viewed later for up to two months after the end of the last class (videos expire December 21, 2021).
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand how to align teams with organizational strategies and goals to enable agile transformation.
- Facilitate culture change and transformation within and across teams.
- Coach disparate teams and groups of teams, often with different priorities and preferred WoWs, to identify the most appropriate way to work and learn together given the situation they currently face.
- Collaborate with, and potentially be an active member of, your organization’s transformation team.
- Master the Disciplined Agile tool kit and thereby accelerate process improvement by leveraging proven practices and strategies in context.
- Be prepared to take the Disciplined Agile Coach (DAC) exam and earn a valuable, credible certification. Your exam fee is included in tuition.
